Economist
George Akerlof
The market for lemons, and what asymmetric information does to prices.
George Arthur Akerlof is an American economist and a university professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University and Koshland Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. Akerlof was awarded the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, jointly with Michael Spence and Joseph Stiglitz, "for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information." He is the husband of former United States Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen.
- Born
- 1940-06-17, New Haven, USAA Monday
- At birth
- Sun in Gemini, Moon in Scorpio
- Nationality
- United States
- Birth-time source
- No birth time on record: Rodden X
Born
At birth
Nationality
Birth-time sourceBirth Chart
1940-06-17, New Haven, USA · time unknown, noon chart
America/New_Yorkthe zone used then
America/New_YorkThe chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Gemini | 26°16′ | Direct |
| Moon | Scorpio | 26°45′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Cancer | 20°18′ | Direct |
| Venus | Cancer | 10°20′ | Retrograde |
| Mars | Cancer | 19°56′ | Direct |
| Jupiter | Taurus | 6°54′ | Direct |
| Saturn | Taurus | 10°48′ | Direct |
| Uranus | Taurus | 23°59′ | Direct |
| Neptune | Virgo | 22°46′ | Direct |
| Pluto | Leo | 1°27′ | Direct |
George Akerlof is alive, so there is one chart here rather than two. The death chart is cast for a documented moment of death and there is nothing to cast one for, which is the point: this site does not estimate either end.
Their Astrocartography
Where each planet sat on one of the four angles at the moment George Akerlof was born. Tap a line to read what the tradition associates with it.
Cast for noon, as the birth time is unknown, so the longitudes are approximate.